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Added on the 08/10/2019 21:27:09 - Copyright : AFP EN
Indigenous peoples from Amazon countries and members of social movements take part in the March of the Peoples of the Earth for the Amazon in Belem, as the northern Brazilian city hosts a two-day meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to chart an ambitious roadmap to save the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
The four Indigenous children who who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest, arrive at the military hospital in Bogota. IMAGES
Lima, Sep 30 (EFE).- To protect some 35 million hectares of Amazon rainforest, the main indigenous organizations of Ecuador and Peru launched Thursday their own alternative development plan that seeks to leave oil and gas underground.The area, called by the natives as Cuencas Sagradas or Sacred Basins, comprises a wide water network originating in the glaciers of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.The water descends to form innumerable rivers, feeding the Amazon, which hosts the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world and regulates the climate of the entire planet. (Camera: JUAN PALOMINO).SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF PERU AND ECUADOR PRESENT PLAN TO PROTECT THE AMAZON RAINFOREST IN LIMA, PERU.
Datem del Marañón (Peru), Sep 14 (EFE) (Camera: Carla Samon) .- When her husband sentenced her to singleness for not being able to have children, Balbina Sundi Akumbari, from the Kandozi people, found her best ally in the Taricaya turtles to assert herself and help other women like her who resist the scourge of machismo so deeply rooted in the remote community where she lives, deep in the Peruvian Amazon.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION OF NATIVE WOMEN IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON
Marseille, France, Sep 5 (EFE).- (Camera: Mario García Sánchez) Indigenous groups on Sunday called for 80% of the Amazon to be granted protection as a way to ward off land invasions, drug trafficking and deforestation. SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF THE INDIGENOUS LEADER OF THE VENEZUELAN AMAZON AND GENERAL COORDINATOR OF COICA, GREGORIO MIRABAL (ON SATURDAY).TRANSLATION:"We want to tell the world that we need them to wake up to save the planet. We are also here to demand that this world congress on protected areas shows whether it really stands with indigenous peoples."We demand that, together, we save 80% of the Amazon basin no later than 2025, there must be results before 2025"
Atalaya do Norte (Brazil), Apr 30 (EFE) (Camera: Tatiana Nevo) .- From deep in the Brazilian Amazon, Pixi Isma and Kunnin traveled for 12 days, along with 35 other indigenous Matis, from their villages on the shores of the Rio Branco, a tributary of the Amazon, to Atalaya do Norte, the town closest to their villages for the sole purpose of getting vaccinated.FOOTAGE OF THE VOYAGE UNTIL REACHING ATALAYA, BRAZIL